What’s going on?

Following Monday’s requests that EPA employees no longer post social media updates and orders for USDA’s main research branch to cease communication with the public, (that have now been rescinded,) National Park Service Twitter accounts were the first to take action.

According to Mashable, “Though it remains unclear who is running these rogue accounts or whether they actually have an affiliation to government organizations, administrations such as NASA, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA,) the U.S. National Weather Service, National Institutes of Health (NIH,) EPA and the USDA are ‘unofficially’ being represented.”

To make it easier to track their feeds, Alice Stollmeyer created a Twitter list she calls Twistance, which you can access in the browser by going here, or in the Twitter app, hashtag #Twistance.

On Tuesday, there were 13 rogue accounts. As of this afternoon 1/26/17, there are 50! 2/1/17, there are 62!

Update 1/29/17:Alice Stollmeyer has a second list for federal agency accounts: Twistance 2. As of now 2/1/17, this list has 33 members., including AltFBI and Alt US Justice Dep’t.

Take a look at #Twistance and Twistance 2 to see the breadth of representation and make up your own mind.

“Rogue Twitter accounts are fun, but gov’t employees and scientists are very afraid of being fired if they speak out & share facts.”What The ‘Rogue’ EPA, NPS and NASA Twitter Accounts Teach Us About The Future Of Social — Forbes 1/25/17